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A model for linkage between health professions education and health: FAIMER international faculty development initiatives
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Understanding the mechanism by which faculty development may promote development of socially accountable institutions and improve health can be useful for improving this connection and evaluating program effectiveness.Abstract:
Linking faculty development to improvement of community health is of particular interest to health professions educators and researchers. While individuals and institutions engaged in health professions education have the potential to improve health, limited literature connects capacity building in education with improvements in health. Understanding the mechanism by which faculty development may promote development of socially accountable institutions and improve health can be useful for improving this connection and evaluating program effectiveness.read more
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Global faculty development: lessons learned from the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) initiatives.
TL;DR: The author recommends several practices for successful international collaborations based on 13 years of experience with FAIMER fellowships, including using authentic education projects to maintain alignment with local needs and apply newly acquired knowledge and skills.
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Project-based faculty development by international health professions educators: practical strategies.
Stewart Mennin,Summers Kalishman,Mary Ann Eklund,Stacey R. Friedman,Page S. Morahan,William P. Burdick +5 more
TL;DR: A retrospective analysis of project evolution to identify common experiences, challenges, and successful strategies of 54 mid-career faculty members from 18 developing countries who attended the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research Institute between 2001 and 2006.
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Evaluation of an international faculty development program for developing countries in Asia: the Seoul Intensive Course for Medical Educators
Do Hwan Kim,Hyun Bae Yoon,Minsun Sung,Dong Mi Yoo,Jinyoung Hwang,Eun-Jung Kim,Seunghee Lee,Jwa Seop Shin +7 more
TL;DR: Evaluation results show that the Seoul Intensive Course for Medical Educators for 16 fellows from five Asian countries was successful in terms of its effectiveness and understanding of the underlying factors on transfer could improve the effectiveness of faculty development programs for developing countries.
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Good exams made easy: The item management system for multiple examination formats
Achim Hochlehnert,Konstantin Brass,Andreas Möltner,Jobst Hendrik Schultz,John J. Norcini,Ara Tekian,Jana Jünger +6 more
TL;DR: The web-based Item Management System (IMS) was developed which supports all processes of the assessment workflow as an all-in-one working platform and contrasts it with the item management systems of other associations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the main finding from the Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities (EPLC) project was summarised, which was funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the General Teaching Council for England (GTCe), and the National College for School Leadership (NCSL).
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Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
TL;DR: Turning to One Another as discussed by the authors proposes that we use the increasingly popular process of conversation and dialogue as the means to develop solutions for the societal changes that need to occur both locally and globally.
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Scaling up in international health: what are the key issues?
Lindsay J Mangham,Kara Hanson +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the notion of scaling up is primarily used to describe the ambition or process of expanding the coverage of health interventions, though the term has also referred to increasing the financial, human and capital resources required to expand coverage.
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Determining sociability, social space, and social presence in (a)synchronous collaborative groups.
TL;DR: This study deals with the construction and validation of three instruments to determine sociability, social space, and social presence in (a)synchronous collaborating groups and suggests that the instruments have potential to be useful as measures for the respective variables.
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Research capacity strengthening in the South
TL;DR: The steps in capability strengthening with special emphasis on identification of trainees, their training and deployment on return are described and mechanisms of research sustainability including creation of suitable career structures, remuneration of researchers and the importance of building up suitable infrastructure for research to meet increasing demands and competence are described.